The magic checkbox
Reading Time: 2 minutesI wrote yesterday about how you should work hard not to confuse Google, and one of the things I mentioned in there was to “make…
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How I plan out my future posts
Reading Time: 2 minutesBlogging daily is tough. I just passed six months and I’m going strong, but it’ll end at some point. For now, though, here is how…
Full site editing is coming to WordPress
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver since WordPress unveiled the drag-and-drop “Gutenberg” editor a few years ago, which I use on here (and my first post with it was three…
Some first steps with Google Search Console
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou may be familiar with Google Analytics, used to track traffic on a website, but not as many are as familiar with Google Search Console….
If you want to improve, keep the comments open
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the big questions new bloggers face is whether or not to allow readers to leave comments. In almost every case, I think the…
Website Accessibility: Help your users, help your rankings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday at the A Brighter Web Meetup, we had a great discussion about website accessibility, why it’s important, and steps to take to get started….
300 posts gone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been doing quite a lot of clean-up, organization, and optimization on this blog, and a few days ago I deleted 297 old posts! I…
Speeding up this blog
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the past day, I’ve done a few things to speed up the load time of this site. It wasn’t particularly slow to begin with,…
Thinking through “A Brighter Web”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve been running various aspect of A Brighter Web, an educational arm of our agency, for quite a while now. We’ve hosted our Meetup every…
Thomas Edison was bad at math
Reading Time: 2 minutesThomas Edison was famously bad at math (he said he had a “distaste” for it), but math was essential to much of the work he…
Social media is vapor
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re reading this post in 2021, there is a good chance you found this post via social media. If you’re reading this at some…
100 days of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith this post, I’ve gone 100 days in a row with a blog post. My last run at this (starting back in December of 2016)…